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OpenAI ENDS Vesting Cliff
- ▶ 1:34 John Coogan I mean, the App Store would launch, I believe, in 2007. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 14:32 John Coogan And then we've had this other bucket, which is like iTunes, App Store, Apple Care, iCloud, Apple Pay, licensing, just a bunch of other stuff. 2 times in the scene
GPT-5.2 Reactions, Jacob Elordi vs AI, Disney x OpenAI Deal Breakdown | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 7:59 unnamed speaker Hard to think of a better time for this deal to get done than 11 days into OpenAI's Code Red, and right as Sora was about to fall out of the App Store's top 25.
The World’s Fastest Growing Defense Company, OpenAI’s Code Red, Google Strikes Back | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 16:55 John Coogan Uh, OpenAI's Sora app has fallen out of the top 20 most downloaded apps in the United States on both the App Store and Google Play.
Thursday's Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:43 unnamed speaker This, this, the external signs were, I think, like, App Store data.
Mark Gurman on Apple Glasses Release Date, The Next AirPods, The Problem With Siri & More
- ▶ 24:13 unnamed speaker So similar to the app store.
Brian Chesky Live on TBPN
- ▶ 18:24 Brian Chesky The top three apps in the App Store are AI apps. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:25 Brian Chesky And I said, I don't know how much different it is than the app store. 2 times in the scene
George Hotz Goes OFF | Tweet Reactions
- ▶ 18:26 unnamed speaker That's gaining popularity in the app store.
How Josh Kushner Became The Most Powerful VC in New York
- ▶ 1:19 unnamed speaker A fake UK address in order to download the app via the UK app store.
Weekly Recap: Apple Debuts iPhone 17, Einstein of Wall Street, YC Demo Day, Declining AI Adoption
- ▶ 1:13:11 unnamed speaker What if you're, what if your business is, uh, mobile games in the app store?
Weekly Recap: Tesla's Crazy Plan, USA vs. Google, Palantir CEO on Conspiracy Theories
- ▶ 47:24 Jordi Hays We're gonna start heavily, we, if Apple just starts heavily pushing ChatGPT, they will by default get their 30% from the App Store, right?
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- ▶ 2:03:09 John Coogan How there's like apps in the app store that are.
How LABUBU made BILLIONS
- ▶ 29:13 John Coogan Blake Robbins posts about this a lot, how there's, like, apps in the app store that are gambling.
Perplexity's Offer to Buy Google Chrome for $34.5 BILLION Explained
- ▶ 4:50 John Coogan Um, it's, it's very hard to break through, even if, even if perplexity can, like, rocket to the top of the app store in India for a little bit, like, it's hard to hold on to when, when the ChatGPT snowball is just growing bigger and bigger…
Weekly Recap: Sam vs. Elon, Cluely's Crazy Ad, UFC x Paramount, Apple's AI Robot
- ▶ 0:33 John Coogan Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 John Coogan Um, apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides opening eye to reach, uh, number one, the app store, which features 8 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:09 John Coogan Even if, even if perplexity can like rocket to the top of the app store in India for a little bit, like it's hard to hold on to when, when the chat GPT snowball is just growing bigger and bigger every single day.
BREAKING: Sam Altman VS Elon Musk
- ▶ 0:35 John Coogan For any AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the App Store, which is an unequivocal antitrust violation.
- ▶ 1:00 John Coogan First, in January of 25, DeepSeek reached number one overall in the App Store, similar to how Ramp is our number one sponsor on this show.
- ▶ 1:15 John Coogan Um, and just one month ago on July, 18th, 25, uh, perplexity reached number one overall in India's app store. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:50 unnamed speaker AI company besides OpenAI to reach number one in the App Store.
- ▶ 10:32 John Coogan Um, Apple is behaving in a manner that makes it impossible for any AI company besides opening eye to reach a number one, the app store, which features 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:50 unnamed speaker Decisions about which apps to feature in the App Store. 3 times in the scene
Marc Andreessen on Why Apple Might Miss the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 14:42 Marc Andreessen And then of course it didn't have an app store, right?
Weekly Recap: Casey Neistat, OpenAI Cracks Math, The Future of ChatGPT, Apple x F1, Intel Layoffs
- ▶ 31:26 John Coogan Like, if, if, if you played out a hypothetical scenario and you went and you, you had, you know, the keys to OpenAI HQ, you went and you exfiltrated all the code, everything, got an app into the app store,
The Future of ChatGPT
- ▶ 4:50 unnamed speaker Like, if, if, if you played out a hypothetical scenario and you went and you, you had, you know, the keys to OpenAI HQ, you went and you exfiltrated all the code, everything, got an app into the app store,
Weekly Recap: CEO Affair at Coldplay Concert, Elon Musk's AI Girlfriend, Cognition Acquires Windsurf
- ▶ 15:01 Jordi Hays Has over 225,000 reviews in the App Store.
- ▶ 24:22 Jordi Hays It is the number one free app on the Japanese app store.
ELON MUSK's Grok New Vulgar Anime Mode
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We Interviewed the Best Startups From YC Demo Day (June 2025)
- ▶ 52:31 unnamed speaker It's like an app store within an app store. 2 times in the scene
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- ▶ 20:31 John Coogan You're not in the app store.
Weekly Recap: Apple WWDC, Andrew Huberman, YC Demo Day, Intern Phone Assembly, $14B Meta x Scale
- ▶ 41:01 John Coogan But you can get something that's served into the store that only uses Apple's APIs and creates an experience that is, that is zero ongoing cost. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:38:57 unnamed speaker Yeah, so typically you'll have to write code, you'll have to build the app in Xcode or something, you'll have to submit it for apps to review, you'll have to get your users to download it in TestLite, enter an invite code. 3 times in the scene
Read Write Own - A16Z Partner Chris Dixon on TBPN
- ▶ 11:09 Chris Dixon I actually have, if for those interested, I wrote a book, read, write, own, and I have a chapter on take rates where I go through this in detail, but it's essentially you're going from like 30% in the app store, you know, a hundred percent…
Why Industrialization WON'T Create New JOBS | Samuel Hammond on TBPN April 8th
- ▶ 27:39 unnamed speaker Well, uh, Polymarket has the chance of TikTok being on the app store in on May first at 97%.
Sean Frank talks about Meta monetizing WhatsApp, Ridge Wallet, and the downfall of Solo Brands.
- ▶ 11:17 unnamed speaker Do you see a world where app store ads, but not much for direct to consumer companies, if I'm correct. 2 times in the scene
Michael Mignano on Building Anchor, Social Podcasting, and the Future of Oboe.
- ▶ 20:02 Michael Mignano They're about to ship to the app store.
Is APPLE Headed Downhill? (Investor Breakdown)
- ▶ 5:12 John Coogan Of course, this is like the App Store.
The FULL HISTORY of Temu (Why it's EXPLODING!)
- ▶ 1:54 unnamed speaker uh, I think he posted this because around, so this is, you know, probably 10 months after the initial Superbowl ad, but they had gone event, gone number one in the app store again.
- ▶ 9:24 unnamed speaker Acquired and then changed hands a couple of times, and Mafia City is actually still a game that you can download in the App Store and use.
Trump Coin Takeover (What's Next for Crypto)
- ▶ 56:06 unnamed speaker Completely get us kicked out of the Apple App Store.
The END of TikTok?
- ▶ 18:38 John Coogan Instead, the law requires App Store operators like Apple and Google to stop making TikTok available for downloads.
- ▶ 33:19 John Coogan And they did a ton of, like, app store, uh, optimization and keyword stuffing in the title. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:35 John Coogan Yeah, I think you'd log in and port, and they, and they, like, uh, they duped the backend database and created a new and combined app, putting it in the app store as TikTok.
- ▶ 1:15:14 John Coogan As little red book climbed to the top of Apple's app store Monday, it became evident that many members of the public 2 times in the scene
How the LA Fires Started (8 Top Theories)
- ▶ 29:05 John Coogan And, uh, Raj Veer says number one on the app store and growing like wildfire, watch duty, wildfire maps, check out their strategies that went viral on TikTok.